Hi All!

Answering a question asked of me on another medium - the difference
between "affect" and "effect":

Gage Canadian Dictionary: Most commonly, effect is a noun, meaning
"result", and affect is a verb, meaning "to influence": We don't know
what effect the new rule will have. The rule will affect everybody.
However, in formal English, effect is also used as a verb meaning "get
done, bring about": he effected an improvement in the working
conditions. Thus, to affect a proposal means to influence it or make a
change in it, while to effect a proposal means to get it done or bring
it to completion.



Cheers... Dallas

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Dallas Hinton:

However, in formal English, effect is also used as a
verb meaning "get done, bring about": he effected an
improvement in the working conditions. Thus, to affect a
proposal means to influence it or make a change in it,
while to effect a proposal means to get it done or bring
it to completion.

Example -- my program `pamlevels' is advertised as
"effecting" a levels transformation with the possibility to
preserve color integrity:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamlevels.html

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Re: affect / effect
By: Dallas Hinton to All on Tue Mar 17 2020 22:43:00

Answering a question asked of me on another medium - the
difference between "affect" and "effect":

i generally toss the following in their direction...

an effect can affect something but there is no
affect that can effect anything.


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